Quotes About Being Athletic

#1. As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

Matt Kuchar

#2. I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

Hill Harper

#3. I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

Adrianne Palicki

#4. I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Brad Garrett

#5. I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

Alison Jackson

#6. There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

Donna Lopiano

#7. In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

J.D. Salinger

#8. My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

Herschel Walker

#9. Dancing is so physical and so athletic. I think it rings to the boy that is in my soul because you get to run and jump and climb and act as aggressively as you'd like.

Stephen Boss

#10. I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

Gary Gulman

#11. My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

Grace Jones

#12. Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!

Lance Berkman

#13. TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.

Walt Whitman

#14. I'm not terribly athletic. And ... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.

Lester Holt

#15. In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

Ellen Gilchrist

#16. Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.

Lucas Till

#17. I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

Scott MacDonald

#18. I'm an athletic person. But I love my body because I know what it's been through to be what it is. And honestly I'm not going to change for someone that is depressed about their life.

Gigi Hadid

#19. Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.

Darren McFadden

#20. I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.

Derrick Rose

#21. I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

Lance Armstrong

#22. Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

Billie Jean King

#23. Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

Billie Jean King

#24. Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.

Bill James

#25. When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

R. Kelly

#26. I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

Ronnie Corbett

#27. You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.

Dana Davis

#28. They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make the decision to hurt him and then do it.

Ilona Andrews

#29. Inigo looked at him. "You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine?"
"You're my friend, my only one."
"Pathetic, that's what we are," Inigo said.
"Athletic.

William Goldman

#30. His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#31. I don't believe in wearing track pants unless you are in an actual athletic situation.

Carrie Mesrobian

#32. My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

Abby Wambach

#33. I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.

Parker Young

#34. Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

Godfrey

#35. The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.

Aleister Crowley

#36. Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

Brad Bird

#37. One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

Michael Shannon

#38. Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

David Leadbetter

#39. You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

Simone Elkeles

#40. I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

Justin Cole

#41. In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

John Updike

#42. I peeked under the covers. Susan was naked except for a pair of thick white athletic socks. This was another good sign. Susan

Robert B. Parker

#43. I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

Joe Manganiello

#44. When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

Michael Josephson

#45. When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

Dhani Jones

#46. I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

Jim Glennon

#47. At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.

Sascha Radetsky

#48. Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.

Mary Doria Russell

#49. Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

Jennifer Shahade

#50. Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Thomas M. Disch

#51. I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.

Eva Longoria

#52. In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

Frederick Lenz

#53. My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

Cardale Jones

#54. The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.

Maria V. Snyder

#55. All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

Rachel Zoe

#56. My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

Tim Cahill

#57. I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Uzo Aduba

#58. Mr. Grey." I nod at him. Moving with lithe athletic grace to the door, he opens it wide. "Just ensuring you make it through the door, Miss Steele." He gives me a small smile. Obviously, he's referring to my earlier less-than-elegant entry into his office. I blush.

E.L. James

#59. Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Zig Ziglar

#60. Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

Joe Bastianich

#61. For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.

Mark Emmert

#62. For 'The Terminator,' I was asked to drop a bit of weight to get less physically imposing because it wasn't about an athletic build; the build they were looking for was something more unassuming or boyish. And it was tough!

Jai Courtney

#63. Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

Dan Millman

#64. Graham Pendleton is tall, athletic, charming, glamorously handsome. He excels at all sports, even the ones he hasn't tried.

Beatriz Williams

#65. I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Peter M. Brant

#66. I will never forget my time with Athletic Club and I'd like to thank the fans and staff for all their support and, above all, wish all my fantastic former team-mates all the best for the future.

Ander Herrera

#67. Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Russell Smith

#68. I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

John Travolta

#69. We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

Isaac Asimov

#70. America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

Eric Braeden

#71. I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

Rosemary Mahoney

#72. I'm not super-athletic.

Andrew Bogut

#73. I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

Drew Barrymore

#74. I suspect everybody has a degree of psychic ability, just as a everybody has a degree of athletic or artistic ability. Some people have special gifts; other people have a particular interest that leads them to develop their abilities. But the phenomenon itself is ordinary and widespread.

Michael Crichton

#75. In many ways, I feel I'm still as physically fit as I was 20 years ago because I've always been athletic.

Michelle Yeoh

#76. Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.

Alex Kendrick

#77. Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

Bart Starr

#78. It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

Herb Elliott

#79. Holden stopped next to the desk and turned around to look at the woman sitting on the couch. Graying hair, but good features and an athletic build. In a flophouse like this, that probably meant a prostitute reaching the end of her shelf life.

James S.A. Corey

#80. Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Chuck Klosterman

#81. I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes.

Jesse Williams

#82. Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

Johnny Weir

#83. Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

Kirk Mango

#84. I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

Tim Tebow

#85. Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out
either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

Dave McPherson

#86. I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.

Sarah Shahi

#87. My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.

Gigi Hadid

#88. Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

Paul Tsongas

#89. Later, in her suite at the Stanhope, Ruth resisted calling Eddie. Besides, at the New York Athletic Club, they probably refused to answer the phone after a certain hour. Or else they would demand to know, when you called, if you were wearing a coat and tie.

John Irving

#90. it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in the process of doing: athletic exertion was vanity. You engaged in it less for the joy of the act than in order to exhaust yourself.

Edouard Leve

#91. I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Pete Rozelle

#92. Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

Erin Heatherton

#93. I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

Jessye Norman

#94. THE AFRO-AMERICAN HAS BEEN HEIR TO THE MYTHS THAT IT IS BETTER TO BE POOR THAN RICH, LOWER-CLASS RATHER THAN MIDDLE OR UPPER, EASYGOING RATHER THAN INDUSTRIOUS, EXTRAVAGANT RATHER THAN THRIFTY AND ATHLETIC RATHER THAN ACADEMIC.

John Connolly

#95. I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

#96. I like to have the widest part of the car being the wheels and not the body. It gives it a more athletic look and, with the sculpture, helps make a car look sexy.

Henrik Fisker

#97. I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman

#98. I'm pretty athletic. I do things sometimes even I can't believe.

Josh Howard

#99. Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch
Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll scream
max: want to jog?
(chester screams).

James Howe

#100. I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.

Trevor McNevan